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"""This is a thoughtful, scholarly and convincing study, based on close readings of the novels and careful regard of the critical readings of others."" - A. G. van den Broek, George Eliot Review ""In our pandemic present, when marketized states have determined that the premature death of millions is the price of doing business, this book couldn't be more relevant. MacLure's analysis of biopolitics highlights the role of affect in capitalism's cultural history to explain the acceptance (and promotion) of preventable death."" --Emily Steinlight, author of Populating the Novel: Literary Form and the Politics of Surplus Life ""Intelligent, well-researched, and situated in the wake of essential critical works of the last decade, The Feeling of Letting Die leaves us with the generally unacknowledged but eminently believable conclusion that the Victorians were as Malthusian as Scrooge before his transformation."" --Audrey Jaffe, author of The Affective Life of the Average Man: The Victorian Novel and the Stock-Market Graph ""With The Feeling of Letting Die, Jennifer MacLure makes an important contribution to the study and investigation of a topic of a wide epistemic scope. ... this is a very well organised monograph that delves, with critical intelligence and methodological consistency, into the economic effects of change-effects that are usually overlooked in Victorian studies."" --Michela Marroni, RSV (Rivista di Studi Vittoriani)"

In our pandemic present, when marketized states have determined that the premature death of millions is the price of doing business, this book couldn't be more relevant. MacLure's analysis of biopolitics highlights the role of affect in capitalism's cultural history to explain the acceptance (and promotion) of preventable death. --Emily Steinlight, author of Populating the Novel: Literary Form and the Politics of Surplus Life Intelligent, well-researched, and situated in the wake of essential critical works of the last decade, The Feeling of Letting Die leaves us with the generally unacknowledged but eminently believable conclusion that the Victorians were as Malthusian as Scrooge before his transformation. --Audrey Jaffe, author of The Affective Life of the Average Man: The Victorian Novel and the Stock-Market Graph

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Jennifer MacLure is Assistant Professor of English at Kent State University.

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